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Maria Moustaka-Gouni publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maria Moustaka-Gouni sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 123 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Maria Moustaka-Gouni D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maria Moustaka-Gouni sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Maria Moustaka-Gouni is affiliated with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Their research primarily spans environmental sciences and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on aquatic ecosystems and related fields.

The scientist's work frequently appears in journals such as Diversity, Water, Sustainability, Ecological Informatics, and the Journal of Environmental Management. These publication venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their studies in environmental topics.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields they engage with involve:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Molecular Biology

The core research topics cover:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Effects of Harmful Blooms of Large-Sized and Colonial Cyanobacteria on Aquatic Food Webs" (2020), published in Water
  • "Brewery wastewater treatment using cyanobacterial-bacterial settleable aggregates" (2020), published in Algal Research
  • "A semi-continuous algal-bacterial wastewater treatment process coupled with bioethanol production" (2022), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Biotreatment of Poultry Waste Coupled with Biodiesel Production Using Suspended and Attached Growth Microalgal-Based Systems" (2020), published in Sustainability
  • "Impact of hydrogenation on miscibility of fast pyrolysis bio-oil with refinery fractions towards bio-oil refinery integration" (2021), published in Biomass and Bioenergy

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Natassa Stefanidou
  • Savvas Genitsaris
  • Evangelia Michaloudi
  • Matina Katsiapi
  • Maria Demertzioglou

Best Publications

  • Seasonal variation in phytoplankton composition and physical-chemical features of the shallow Lake Doïrani, Macedonia, Greece

    M. Temponeras;J. Kristiansen;M. Moustaka-Gouni

  • Airborne algae and cyanobacteria: occurrence and related health effects.

    Savvas Genitsaris;Konstantinos Ar Kormas;Maria Moustaka-Gouni

  • Plankton food web structure in a eutrophic polymictic lake with a history of toxic cyanobacterial blooms

    Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Elisabeth Vardaka;Evangelia Michaloudi;Konstantinos Ar. Kormas

  • Limnothrix redekei (Van Goor) Meffert (Cyanobacteria) Strains from Lake Kastoria, Greece Form a Separate Phylogenetic Group

    S. Gkelis;P. Rajaniemi;E. Vardaka;E. Vardaka;M. Moustaka-Gouni

  • Do marine phytoplankton follow Bergmann's rule sensu lato?

    Ulrich Sommer;Kalista Higini Peter;Savvas Genitsaris;Maria Moustaka-Gouni

  • Warming and Ocean Acidification Effects on Phytoplankton--From Species Shifts to Size Shifts within Species in a Mesocosm Experiment.

    Ulrich Sommer;Carolin Paul;Maria Moustaka-Gouni

  • Cyanobacterial blooms and water quality in Greek waterbodies

    Elizabeth Vardaka;Elizabeth Vardaka;Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Catherine M. Cook;Tom Lanaras

  • Phytoplankton species succession in a shallow Mediterranean lake (L. Kastoria, Greece): steady-state dominance of Limnothrix redekei, Microcystis aeruginosa and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

    Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Elisabeth Vardaka;Eleni Tryfon

  • Benefits, costs and taxonomic distribution of marine phytoplankton body size

    Ulrich Sommer;Ulrich Sommer;Evangelia Charalampous;Evangelia Charalampous;Savvas Genitsaris;Maria Moustaka-Gouni

  • Raphidiopsis mediterranea Skuja represents non-heterocytous life-cycle stages of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Woloszynska) Seenayya et Subba Raju in Lake Kastoria (Greece), its type locality: evidence by morphological and phylogenetic analysis.

    Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Konstantinos Ar. Kormas;Elisabeth Vardaka;Matina Katsiapi

  • Biotreatment of raisin and winery wastewaters and simultaneous biodiesel production using a Leptolyngbya-based microbial consortium

    Olga N. Tsolcha;Athanasia G. Tekerlekopoulou;Christos S. Akratos;George Aggelis

  • Plankton Microorganisms Coinciding with Two Consecutive Mass Fish Kills in a Newly Reconstructed Lake

    Andreas Oikonomou;Matina Katsiapi;Hera Karayanni;Maria Moustaka-Gouni

  • Watershed land use types as drivers of freshwater phytoplankton structure

    Matina Katsiapi;Antonios D. Mazaris;Evangelia Charalampous;Maria Moustaka-Gouni

  • Biogeographical patterns of freshwater micro- and macroorganisms: a comparison between phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish in the eastern Mediterranean

    Antonios D. Mazaris;Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Evangelia Michaloudi;Dimitra C. Bobori

  • Occurrence and diversity of cyanotoxins in Greek lakes.

    Christophoros Christophoridis;Sevasti-Kiriaki Zervou;Korina Manolidi;Matina Katsiapi

  • Plankton community structure during an ecosystem disruptive algal bloom of Prymnesium parvum

    Evangelia Michaloudi;Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Spyros Gkelis;Kimon Pantelidakis

  • Artificially-born "killer" lake: Phytoplankton based water quality and microcystin affected fish in a reconstructed lake

    Th. Papadimitriou;M. Katsiapi;K.Ar. Kormas;M. Moustaka-Gouni

  • Phytoplankton and water quality in a Mediterranean drinking-water reservoir (Marathonas Reservoir, Greece)

    Matina Katsiapi;Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Evangelia Michaloudi;Konstantinos Ar. Kormas

  • Effects of Harmful Blooms of Large-Sized and Colonial Cyanobacteria on Aquatic Food Webs

    Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Ulrich Sommer

  • Air-dispersed phytoplankton in a Mediterranean River-Reservoir System (Aliakmon-Polyphytos, Greece)

    Anastasia Chrisostomou;Maria Moustaka-Gouni;Stefanos Sgardelis;Thomas Lanaras

  • Species composition and seasonal cycles of phytoplankton with special reference to the nanoplankton of Lake Mikri Prespa

    E. Tryfon;M. Moustaka-Gouni

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Sommer
Ulrich Sommer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Konstantinos Ar. Kormas
Konstantinos Ar. Kormas University Of Thessaly
George Aggelis
George Aggelis University of Patras
Antonios D. Mazaris
Antonios D. Mazaris Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Kaarina Sivonen
Kaarina Sivonen University of Helsinki
Anastasia Hiskia
Anastasia Hiskia University of Turin
George B. Arhonditsis
George B. Arhonditsis University of Toronto
Assaf Sukenik
Assaf Sukenik Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Dimitra Voutsa
Dimitra Voutsa Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Stefanos P. Sgardelis
Stefanos P. Sgardelis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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